Wednesday, 14 November 2012

"Actresses Are the Ones Sexually Harassing Movie Producers"

The sad issue of sexual harassment in Nollywood is not going away
anytime soon. In a recent chat, popular actress, Rita Edochie gave a new
insight into the dirty game.

"Sex before role in the industry? As a person, I have never been
harassed by anyone, be it executive producer or producer in order to
give me role. But let me tell you the truth, they don’t harass them, the
girls are the people that harass, quote me anywhere.

"Do you know one funny thing that is happening now? Ladies in Asaba pay
producers for them to appear in movies, it is happening right now in
Asaba.

"They furnish the producer’s house, buy cars for them just for them to
appear and show face in a movie. But I don’t know whether they want to
be carrying drugs or not but it is something that is happening in Asaba.
They want to pay for them to be seen in the movies," she reacted

Mrs Adochie further said, "for me, you are paying me for my services. In
those days, when we started, I used to drive from Onitsha to Enugu for
audition, as a broadcaster. Then, I will just walk straight to the table
and register my name and elegantly walk out, the people doing the
audition will call me back and give me roles.

"But these days, instead of the girls going to audition, they will be
going from one hotel to the other looking for executive producer’s and
producer’s rooms and after that, nobody would want to waste his tape and
time because even if you give them the role, they will not do well and
at the end, they will end up not giving them the role.

"After the producers used those stupid girls, they will still not use
them in their movies and they will start going around saying, ‘the
producer said if I don’t sleep with him he will not give me role’, they
are all liars, they are the ones harassing them because when you refuse
to go for auditioning and instead go from one producer’s room to the
other, what are you looking for?